Every morning before the lesson we rise to our feet anew and open a fresh page. The same can happen during the day as well.

It is said: “Let the old things you have already heard appear in your eyes as new every day.” Each time a person must feel like a new creation, again and again entering into contact, beginning the spiritual work, and drawing closer to the Creator.

With each such renewal, he realizes Reshimot until a sufficient number of them accumulate. This number is not known in advance, but the counter keeps ticking, the gears keep turning, and the digits after the decimal point change; at some moment the main wheel on the left will click over from one number to another.

So it is with us. Therefore, should be glad to renew our contact, our intention, and our striving toward the goal.

It is said: “The end of the action lies in the initial thought.” Already now I must hold in my mind the goal that I hope to reach in the end. Where am I heading? What exactly do I want? Each time I must imagine this anew more precisely, more clearly, more understandably, more tangibly.

In the final goal all my thoughts and efforts, desires and disappointments converge, fuse together, and become complete. My work ends at the point of the final contact, and this point is called the “drop of unity.”

In it, I myself, the entire reality that I feel, and the Creator, that is, the quality of bestowal, the upper force, all become one whole. This is the state I must already imagine now.

Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) offers another formulation: A person must direct himself toward the unity of Israel, the Torah, and the Creator. Call it whatever is convenient for you. The main thing is that we think about the final point of unity.

And the more clearly that I imagine it in feeling and in mind, the greater joy it should give me. Because then I undoubtedly realize the current Reshimo and consistently advance toward the end of the action.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/12/10, Preface to The Book of Zohar

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Question: What causes failure when we try to awaken a spiritual idea?

Answer: Failures occur because we cannot awaken the group by simply shouting about it because our cry instantly dissipates. Instead it requires the work of each individual making a demand of everyone else. Each person should catch themselves: if they disagree that the greatness of the Creator should be the main thing in the group, they should pull out this point of disagreement and stick to the group’s opinion without hesitation.

This is called going by faith above reason. This will not be considered fanaticism, because with each step a person reveals a greater degree of reason. And each time, one is compelled to subject the matter to a rational analysis. Nothing can be done.

The group’s opinion is that the goal of adhesion with the Creator is the only thing we have, and there is nothing else in our lives besides it.

This should be the general attitude. For example, as it happens during Passover, there is a general excitement. It may not be very clear to us that it relates to the greatness of the Creator; the goal is not entirely clear, but there is a sense of upliftment. Everyone seems to be floating slightly above the ground.

The same atmosphere should prevail in the group, and you should not let yourselves fall. This must determine how and what I do in my life.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, What Is, ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place’ in the Work?”

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Question: How can I tell whether or not I have succeeded in attributing everything to the Creator? And if I have not succeeded, what should I do next?

Answer: Success means that right now, I feel that I am taking a step forward and clarifying my state more deeply. This does not mean that I gain clear vision against the disturbances. I gain clarity in the sense of the saying: “You shall see your world in your lifetime,“ but this is not yet the true attainment of the goal.

However, when causes and consequences become revealed to me as the governance of the Creator, I begin to understand that through this action, I have united my attitude, His work upon me, and the state to which I have arrived. That is, His governance becomes clarified to me in some form, but it becomes clarified only so that I will immediately fall into an even greater disturbance and clarify it in an even greater darkness.

Thus, each time I am given additional strength and knowledge, or one could say, the strength of knowledge, so that I will be ready for the next disturbance.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/26, Rabash, “According to What Is Explained Concerning ‘Love Thy Friend as Thyself’”

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How can one come from Lo Lishma to Lishma? It is written: “When teaching children, women, and uneducated people, they are taught to work only out of fear and in order to receive reward. Until they gain knowledge and acquire much wisdom, they are taught that secret little by little”. This means that within us, there are certain qualities called “women, children, and uneducated people.” And if I begin to study the method of advancing toward the Creator, even if I have nothing except these qualities, I can still advance from them and reach their correction, reach the goal.

In essence, this is how everyone begins. No one is born a great Kabbalist. Of course, everyone has a different level of preparation according to what a person has gone through in previous incarnations, but no one is born with qualities that are ready to feel the upper one and to live in the upper world.

You yourself must create the desires to feel the spiritual world within you; you create them out of sufferings, one after another! Otherwise, you will not feel the thirst for knowledge and will not feel its fulfillment.

There is no other way but to go step by step, desire after desire. It cannot be acquired in any other way. Everyone must go through the entire path. Therefore, you are given the opportunity to choose whether to shorten the path, to pass it quickly and joyfully, or to stretch it out and receiving blows and suffering.

What is the purpose of suffering and prolonging time? How do they help, what do they prevent? In any case, you go through the same degrees, but at each of them, until you acquire mind and reason, you suffer and receive blows that return you to the previous state.

For example, you are standing before a difficult problem, before an obstacle: “I am tired of all this. I do not want it anymore. The goal is far away; maybe they are right, but in just a few months I have already heard everything they talk about here. In short, I do not feel that I can stay here. I will go home.”

And so your life returns to its usual track. Blows and sufferings begin, but you still do not connect them with anything: “Everyone in this world suffers.” You spin around, burn your life, you are born again, and so it continues until you return to the thought that it is impossible to live like this, and the same question arises again: “What is the meaning of my life?” Then you will come again to Kabbalah, and again you will find yourself in a state in which you will need the support of the environment.

In other words, if in the previous state (when you left everything and went away) you had turned to the environment and received support, desires, impressions, excitement, and inspiration of the feeling of the greatness of the goal from it, you could have advanced successfully. But instead, you drop out for dozens of years only to return to the same place, being more ready to listen to the environment. That is all that has changed.

All our study is intended only for this: at every degree, at every step, to protect us from such dropouts that last dozens of years, and to move forward without deviating to the side. This is our entire choice.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean that Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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